Cape Horn

noun

1. a headland on a small island at the southern extremity of South America: belongs to Chile.

Cape Horn

noun

1. a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Also calledthe Horn

Example Sentences

It was the second time this year that the two Italians were making the voyage round Cape Horn.

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So he set sail, went round the stormy Cape Horn in a hurricane, and was soon in the great ocean of the west.

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On the 18th of December, they were south and east of Cape Horn.

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I am by no means of this opinion, although I have twice doubled Cape Horn.

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Cape Horn was rounded more easily than could have been expected.

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